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Italian fashion label Henry Cotton’s chose Libidex to make latex livery for maids and butlers appearing in the shoot for its spring 2014 collection.

Henry Cotton’s, who describe their products as “embodying a typically British country gentleman’s lifestyle, but with quality standards typical of the Italian manufacturing tradition” wanted to give a bit of a twist to the country house theme by featuring latex-clad maid and butler ‘robots’ attending on the fashion models.

“It was a very imaginative idea and worked very well”, according to our own Simon who led the team working on the project. “The robot masks set off the latex outfits perfectly, and give a kinkily surreal edge to the whole shoot.”

The Henry Cotton's brand draws inspiration from the British golfer Henry Thomas Cotton whose love for taste and elegance in clothing led him to develop a his own very distinct style. The brand, created in 1978 combining the principles of informal elegance with the golfing tradition and outdoor functionality, underwent a major repositioning in the 1990s to place it in the modern country segment.

It’s amazing what you can do with a piece of latex! Libidex were commissioned to produce an outfit for the lead role for the new sci-fi thriller ‘The Machine’, which was premiered in London last week at the gala last night of the Raindance Film Festival at the Vue cinema in London’s Leicester Square.

Earlier, at the at the British Academy Cymru Awards at the Wales Millennium Centre on Sunday 29 September, The Machine won the Special Achievement for Film along with Best Costume Design – and the Libidex outfit was amongst the star features.

The outfit is worn in the film by Caity Lotz, who plays a robotic machine with features and figure barely distinguishable from humans, and with an artificial intelligence that far exceeds mankind. She is created in an almost Frankensteineque fashion by a scientist (Toby Stephens) deep in a subterranean bunker and emerges clad from head to toe in Libidex latex!

Asked by our own Simon at the Q&A’s after the premiere if she had enjoyed wearing the latex suit, Caity admitted she’d found the mask a bit frightening (not surprising perhaps as in the film it’s slit open with a razor to reveal her face!); but that the rest of the catsuit fitted perfectly and was great to wear!

The Machine is expected to go on general release in March 2014. It was written and directed by Caradog W James and Produced by John Giwa-Amu. The cast includes Caity Lotz, Toby Stephens and Denis Lawson.

Simon and Rogerio with Writer & Director Caradog W James

Simon and Rogerio at the Raindance Festival in London's Leicester Square, attending the premier of The Machine

A nice selection of Libidex latex was paraded over the pages of Hunger magazine this month, showing us in dark and hard mode for once! It's the first time we've appeared in Hunger - a biannual fashion magazine from photographer and publisher Rankin, which was launched in November 2011. Hunger is undoubtedly one of the most culturally challenging magazines around today, and photographer Rankin successfully blends fashion, lifestyle and art with a unique creative vision. Just the place we need to be seen in!

Photography is by Dilma Hohlov and the Fashion Editor is Kimi O'Neill.

Works by fetish and celebrity photographer (and Libidex collaborator) Bob Carlos Clarke have been presented to the National Portrait Gallery in London by the Bob Carlos Clarke Foundation.

The 10 portraits include subjects such as celebrity chef Marco Pierre White; a tousle-headed Rachael Weisz (another Libidex fan); Stones member Ronnie Wood reflecting on (and in) his guitar; an open-topped Mick Jagger photographed during performance at The Marquee in 1971; and an almost baby-faced study of Elton John.

Before his suicide in 2006, Bob collaborated with Libidex’s Simon Rose on a number of projects, famously shooting our Goddess Catsuit as a chocoholic, decadently spilling a glassful of molten chocolate, which seems a favourite Carlos Clarke motif (Bob once considered shooting the model for his picture ‘Sticky Fingers’ dripping with chocolate, but finally settled on molasses).

Simon was in the midst of planning a photo shoot with Bob when he heard of Bob’s death. “It was a great shock at the time, but I decided to go ahead and finish the shoot in the style that Bob and I had planned, with Emma Delves-Brougton behind the lens”, says Simon. “The results can be seen in some of the pictures on our website. It was, in a way, his last work – at any rate, it was greatly inspired by him.”

Libidex was commissioned by camp comic and ‘national trinket’ Julian Clary to make a latex ‘wedding suit’ for his current UK tour ‘Position Vacant’ – in which the ever-hopeful Julian auditions male members of the audience for the vacant position of his husband. The wedding suit – a stunning number in Metallic Fuchsia and Metallic Pewter - makes a breathtaking entrance at the end of the show when Julian finally gets hitched! ‘Position Vacant’ is touring the UK until 2nd June 2013.

Libidex is going down a storm with Brazilian glitterati too. Brazilian comedienne and TV personality Sabrina Sato appeared in the Brazilian Rolling Stone magazine wearing Libidex corsetry – and on her TV show too!

Not to be out-done, the Brazilian VIP Magazine featured leading Brazilian actress and film-star Fernanda Lima in Libidex bras and corsets in their pages. She bought Libidex from one of Sao Paulo’s most up-market fashion store, Valisere.

And Brazil’s first publicly ‘out’ dominatrix Dommenique Luxor has also been kitted out in Libidex latex, courtesy of one of her clients! The professional dominatrix is also a best-selling author in Brazil – her book, ‘Sit Down and Let me Dominate You’ (a rough translation!) has enjoyed the same sort of success in her own country as ’50 Shades of Grey’ did over here!

On the UK pop scene, Libidex is finding favour with some of the leading bands, featuring in their videos. Some years ago, Libidex produced outfits for Oasis, Emma Bunton and Eminem, and most recently it’s been worn by Girls Aloud and Cheryl Cole & WillI Am and the Saturdays in some of their latest videos. Girls Aloud themselves donned Libidex Matrix Catsuits for their chart-topping track Sexy! No, No No, while Cheryl Cole & Will I Am’s video Check It Out featured Libidex corsets and leggings, and Libidex Catsuits were well to the fore in the Saturdays’ recent release All Fired Up.

Libidex latex gave a bit of edge to the X Factor last Halloween (28 October 2012) when contestants Jade Ellis and Rylan Clark rubbered up in a couple of Libidex creations for their performance.

Jade freaked out on stage in a silver armour harness and a latex bodysuit from Libidex while Rylan Clark donned a Libidex coat and tails for his rendering of the Toxic / Horny/ Poison medley. Jade was the unsuccessful contestant despite the best efforts of the Libidex couturiers, while Rylan famously went on to the finals and fame!